| | When Medicare pays for a single $700,000 surgery for a single senior citizen with one foot already in the grave, I can see why the program is going B-R-O-K-E!
As I recall law prohibits a doctor saying anything about cost of a treatment to a Medicare patient. I tried to verify that using Google, but you can imagine the numerous hits for {Medicare, doctor, cost, advise, end of life, law} that didn't hit the target.
On the other hand, proposals to change Medicare to not pay for expensive treatments that do little to help the patient (or worse) are met with retorts of "death panels!" by opponents.
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(Edited by Merlin Jetton on 7/01, 5:58am)
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